Black Power, a Basic Understanding by Walter RodneyEssay Preview: Black Power, a Basic Understanding by Walter RodneyReport this essay“Black Power, A Basic Understanding” by Walter Rodney“Black Power, A Basic Understanding”, black isn’t as basic as Walter Rodney states it. This chapter is very interesting in which it describe the state at which blacks, non white, are also known as colored people and are powerless due to the white supremacy of white power. As the write starts off, “Black Power is a doctrine about black people”, but not all black people know nor understand the notion of being black. “I have chosen skin color as essentially the most binding factor in our world”, for all people including those not in the United States, but in the islands, or those of the same social class background will be classified as being black due to the mere fact of a labeling process white created the writer explains. “In the U.S.A. if one is not white, then one is black”, as the writer states as also true in many other places such as, “In Britain if one is not white then one is colored”, and in South Africa “one can be white, colored or black depending upon how white people classify you”, the writer describes how whites are to better understand the correlation made between the whites and white power. So as the writer entails, being black isn’t decided by white people but rather “by White Power’, because if you are black then you’re excluded from power for “Power is kept pure milky white”.
As mentioned, blacks are labeled by the white world and usually become “the most important thing about him”, as the write puts it. As he continues to point out, “literally whites can not tell one black from another”, him being fat or thin, intelligent or stupid, criminal or sportsman for we all just black. The writer finds reasons that white people inability to distinguish the millions of black people from one another whose homelands are in Asia, Africa, and few in the Americas, is because “white people do not personally know many black people”, the write stated; oddly, “reflecting a psychological tendency to deny our individuality by refusing to consider us as individual human beings”. In agreement with the writer, I’ve been told on several occasions to be a black girl by whites in Power, and when I explained that I am of Haitian descent first generation American it meant nothing more than just black. So to whites as noted in the chapter, “a Pakistani could and would be easy spotted as a Nigerian in the Midlands just to be simply black”.
In addition, to the writer points on black and white, there are also many events that describe the power relations between them in this chapter. First, “the First World War in 1914, the capitalist division of the world was complete”, states the writer. The division which made capitalists dominant over workers and white people dominant over blacks, and at this point in the world” white people held power in all its aspects of politics, economics, the military, and even culture the author mentions. So the power episode became all over including Europe, Americas, and in Africa the whites held power. “The essence of white power is that it is exercised over black people”, the writer suggest, “whether it was a country belonging originally to whites or to blacks”. In example, blacks are powerless in their own home which occurred in Africa. In result, “black people have no share in that power and are, therefore, denied any say in their own destinies”, the author writes. This in fact occurred over 400 years of slavery and transferred millions of Africans to work and die in the New World.
Secondly, “since 1917 White Power has been slowly reduced”, as the write notes. Another event had been when the Russian Revolution put an end to Russian imperialism in the Far east, and the Chinese Revolution by 1949 had emancipated the world’s largest single ethnic group from the white power complex. As writes continues to explain that in result, “the white power which is our enemy is that which is exercise over black peoples, irrespective of which group is in the majority and irrespective of whether the particular country belonged originally to whites or blacks”, the write repeats again. The message the author is sending is that power resides in the white countries and is exercise over blacks allover the world not only in Africa as we may know but also happened in different parts of the global as well. For example,
вThe only way we can get away with this in practice is to use our culture to justify all sorts of acts in the name of white (or transnational) interests. For example, they use language of a racism, etc to say that black people are weak.
Now consider this: What we have seen is a general belief of the white power community. That they have power and are exercised over black Americans (if the white power community is really right about the thing). So long as anyone says that white people are weak, even though in reality white power is dominant, then the white power groups are the only real power that can exercise power over black Americans and it won’t stop for any reason if they say that whites are weak.
For a moment, if you ask the white power community, they will reply: How could it not? And, if you ask why it is that blacks are still weaker than their “enemies”, you will hear nothing, because to give you a free ride as a white power power group who are able to do all the things they want is to give you some hope. The white power community is quite afraid of black people, the majority of the world, and their power is almost omnipresent.
We know quite clearly from the literature that this fear of losing the white race is caused by an internalised fear of black racism.
So what is the reason why it seems that we are now seeing this in practice across the world? Firstly, black people and the Chinese people are not the ones doing that work. The work of black people, according to the writer, is not something to be taken lightly. It is quite clear that black people are not the only ones who need to do things they need to do to get into the mainstream of our culture. The black people do it by working at the margins of our cultural structures. And this is done by working in different cultures that are in a very unequal relationship to one another.
This is especially important in a situation when we hear that those who are white have been trained in the skills of leadership and are taught by culture not to speak negatively of others. This is seen as a sign of good leadership experience in a system that gives you that which you want, because it’s not a matter of “You are always right”, but of what we want to see. This attitude of “you can’t make it this way if you’re not white” is seen by those who are black, being trained in the skills of leadership and to support the interests of others.
This is why the Chinese have been trained, and many of them are employed in the management of cultural structures and are working with other Asians and European European cultures. It is quite clear that black people are also struggling to get their voices heard about the systemic racism and domination they see in this world.
Therefore, the white power community wants to make everything they do about it happen. They want to try to protect its status and its status and to get out of the white status quo. They want to work to bring about black liberation as such and to get the white race involved. And then ultimately they want